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MILLS, Roger Quarles (1832-1911)

Democrat of Texas

0th congressional district

Served in Senate 1891-1899

Served in House 1873-1893

Total roll-call votes cast: 3,488

Biography

Representative and a Senator from Texas; born in Todd County, Ky., March 30, 1832; attended the common schools; moved to Texas in 1849; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Corsicana, Tex.; member, State house of representatives 1859-1860; enlisted in the Confederate Army and served throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel of the Tenth Regiment, Texas Infantry; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1873, until his resignation on March 29, 1892, having been elected Senator; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Fiftieth Congress), Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Fifty-second Congress); elected to the United States Senate in 1892 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John H. Reagan; reelected in 1893 and served from March 30, 1892, to March 3, 1899; was not a candidate for reelection; died in Corsicana, Tex., September 2, 1911; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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